{"id":150649,"date":"2026-04-30T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150649"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:30:07","slug":"my-finance-expertise-was-no-defence-against-online-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150649","title":{"rendered":"My finance expertise was no defence against online scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong police do a good job in combating cybercrime, but artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving a tsunami of losses with even the most savvy of individuals getting scammed. As a finance professional, I have attended courses about financial crime for decades, supported by continuous annual training.<br \/>\nSo how was I still taken in recently? Was my guard lower because it was in a private capacity? The scam thankfully concluded with no adverse results \u2013 only because people had fallen victim&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3351781\/my-finance-expertise-was-no-defence-against-online-scammers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong police do a good job in combating cybercrime, but artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving a tsunami of losses with even the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}